The Search for the Newcomers, December 2012 Edition.

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Who: Open to Everyone, but only Newly Accepted Characters can start threads.
Where: All around the city! They appear where you want them to appear.
Summary: Newcomers arrive and by now the Government is more ready and sends everyone out to go people hunting.
Warnings: ARRIVALS. Also assume the first thread is the ones who tell you about the city, and the other tags for the character can be talking with others in the city and learning more about it.

[FOR THOSE IN THE CITY:]
They were getting much better at this, it was for certain.

Last month's initial testing of the HORUS system had worked really well. The device which allowed everyone to spot abnormalities; and now even more refined, they could hone in on newcomers at a much faster pace. The leftover energy from the travel (commonly called Magatama Residue) gave them a few minutes to find them before it would flicker out.

Combined with the fact they could appear in most parts of the city, it made finding the newcomers was both easy yet frustratingly difficult.

As the blips appear on your own radar function, it was also nice enough to calculate for you the best transport and destination routes to take to get there. Speed was of the essence, after all.

[FOR THOSE WHO JUST ARRIVED:]
You're not in your homeworld anymore. That much is evident. So how do you feel? Happy? Sad? Troubled? A little of all three? No matter what, the memories of a butterfly man named Philemon are fading like a dream; you'll remember the details, but perhaps not everything he has said.

There is one word that stays with you, however.

Persona.

So...here to save the city, huh? First you'll need to find out more information. And who knows, maybe a familiar face or two...

[OOC: As stated above, only new characters can start a thread, but feel free to jump in any of them. characters arrive with their clothing and whatever items they had on them the moment they were taken; the remaining items will be later found in their apartments.]

Comments

[afterthemoon]

The young man seemed vaguely familiar to Isa, naggingly so, as though he'd seen him in before, or perhaps a relative of him.

"Are you the Welcoming Committee?" Isa scoffs. To be honest, he wasn't really expecting any sort of welcome, from anyone.

[quakega]

Outright being called the Welcoming Committe has him laughing a little sheepishly. "Not usually; I was already in the neighborhood, and you looked a little lost."

Which was true. He'd been in the district, at least.

"I've been here a few months already, so I know a few things. If you like, I could try to answer any questions you have."

What did you have to lose, besides possibly a few minutes of your time?

[afterthemoon]

He wasn't really lost, so to speak, he hadn't been here long enough to count as lost yet. Isa's nose scrunches up in what could be called disdain, though the expression is far to mild to be called that.

"What, exactly, is this place?" He asks after sighing inwardly.

[quakega]

He has to resist the urge to sigh himself, as there's a lot of ground to cover with that simple question. 'Where to even begin...?'

After a few seconds pause where he tries to pick his words carefully, Terra finally answers. "It's... for the most part, a kind of 'nexus' world. It's not part of our own universe, and most of the people here aren't from the same set of worlds as us."

It's the tip of the iceburg, as far as explaining everything goes, but he pauses there, figuring that it'd be a good place to let the other interject with anything else he might want to know.

[afterthemoon]

Isa keeps his expression neutral. The answer wasn't quite the one he was looking for, but he had gotten interesting information none the less.

"But there are people from our worlds?"

Isa had picked up on the way the younger man had phrased his answer, and that it seemed to imply that they were from the same place.

[quakega]

Terra will just nod in response to that question. "There's a number of us here. Most of us are from different places in the timeline, though. It's another one of this city's quirks."

And one that can be confusing, shocking, and possibly brain-breaking, if Promenade had taught him anything.